English-Dutch translations for stench

• stank
  De stank van corruptie is overal en wordt met de dag sterker. The stench of graft is all around us and is getting stronger by the day.
  Maar eerder in Amsterdam was al gebleken dat het afvalwater niet normaal was. Er is iemand flauwgevallen en er was een ondraaglijke en ongewone stank. It was already clear in Amsterdam that its bilge water was not normal, because someone had collapsed and there was an unbearable and unusual stench.
  Maar het lichaam begint te stinken en hoe langer het boven de grond blijft, hoe erger de stank zal worden. But the body is beginning to stink and, the longer it is unburied, the worse the stench is going to get.

Definition of stench

• a strong foul smell, a stink
• A smell or odour, not necessarily bad
• To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink
• To stanch

Examples

• the stench of political corruption

Related words

• insistence
• existence
• consistency
• persistence
• consistence
• stencil
• subsistence
• coexistence
• inconsistency